A fabricated article claiming that the U.S. military arrested former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) director, Charles Rettig, for taking a 1% cut of each federal income tax payment in 2021 and keeping it in offshore accounts, stems from an article on a self-described satirical website.
An Instagram post (here) sharing the claim includes the text, “They all are going down not surprised stop participating in lies.
The claims stem from an article (archive.li/H38Mu) titled “Military Arrests Former IRS Director Charles Rettig” published on July 31, 2023, on the website Real Raw News.
The Real Raw News site has previously posted false information attributed to unnamed sources and addressed by Reuters Fact Check (here), (here), (here).
There is no evidence that former IRS director Charles Rettig was arrested by the U.S. military.
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